Try using http://www.imaging-resource.com/WB/WB.HTM to get some ideas.
Hi,
Understandable: but I would say that good pictures come from having an eye for a picture and the luck to get it. Not much to do with the camera but a lot to do with your eyes and hands. Most "beginners" cameras are more than adequate and have good lenses. My serious cameras, film & digital cost a vast amount more than my not so serious cameras. Say 10 or 15 times as much. I have taken pictures that pleased on both and often cannot tell which one was used, when I look at the pictures on the wall or on the screen. All it takes is a good lens and a little bit of thought backed up by experience of the camera and the subject. In other words, you have to know what they do and when to jump in an over ride them.
Be carefull, the learning bit takes years - luckily you can move forward a bit faster with digital as you can sit down afterwards and look at them and analise the mistakes and go out and correct them within minutes of taking the picture. Do it a few times and learn is the best way and is easier with digital.
This is a very specialised subject. I needs a top of the range camera and long focus lens. And a lot of patience. (Meaning spend two weeks and get three photographs sometimes.) Or pay and do it from a LandRover with someone driving you up to some tired and bored animals.
Easy with digital but best done as panoramas. Again, P&S cameras will do this and lots of software exists to stitch the pictures together. And you need a tripod and a spirit level... Or a lot of experience and handheld but you have to work hard to get it right without a tripod.
Digital, perhaps, say around 5 megapixels for serious work and around 3 megapixels for carrying around with you. But you'd be best advised to start with the 3 megapixel one to carry around with you. I'd go for the Olympus Stylus 300 (or µ 300 as it is known in my part of the world) and then an Olympus E-1 and a serious long lens for the nature stuff - the equivalent of 400 to 1,000 mm in 35 mm film cameras. That will cost you a fortune, btw, especially when you add in the cost of a good tripod, the software and media cards, etc...
Well, I've tried but if I were you I wouldn't jump in too deep at first.
Regards, David
)The problem is, that I'm not sure, will I be able to buy other camera soon.This is the reason to "jump so deep" ) Stupid question, I'm sorry, but it was a new word for me.
It's a three legged stand that holds your camera in place for long exposures, panoramas or times when you want to use the remote (maybe to get yourself in the shot)
I don't know really. BTW, have you looked at the Canon A80?
Kodak dx 6340 or 6440 ... can't go wrong there
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